We know the value of asking, knowing, and holding onto our ‘why’. Our why is the driving force for our passions and actions. A quick search online will give you a quick list of to-dos in order to uncover it.
Finding our why is actually the easy part. But then life happens and things get dicey. Our why is suddenly at the mercy of our circumstances. The pride of our reasoning prowess begin to betray us as we try to search for life’s why. Some will find it, and most won’t.
When the questioning starts to shift to try and comprehend something bigger than us, how can we do it well without frustration and defeat?
Timing and Nature of the Question
Regardless of careful planning and preparation, we will find ourselves in the middle of storms. At this point, it is folly to ask the heavens “why?” We brace ourselves and surrender to fate and have faith in what we do know – storms don’t last. We face the waves so as not to keel over. Let down our sails so that the winds don’t toss us about and rip us apart. We ride the storm and not figure it out.
If we survive, we come out either defeated and scared to sail again, or emboldened to face the next as we build on what we learned from our last voyage. Our personal why can be determined from this point, but our approach to life’s why can take a turn for the worse, if we’re not careful.
Perspective Matters
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.
Thomas Troward
Since most things in life come with a nature of duality:
- Hot or Cold
- Light or Dark
- Life or Death
Where we stand when we ask the question dictates the answer we find. Notice from the above list of examples that the latter is the absence of the former. Only the former truly exist. There is only being and then nothing.
“Well John, it’s not that simple.”
My question to you, then, would be “why are you making it complicated?” Even if you apply spectrums into duality, it only exist in the middle of being and nothingness.
So before you ask “Why?”, be mindful of where you stand at the moment. The answer will find you at the point where it exist.
The Answer will find you.
John Cruz writes... 